remodeling, restoration, or alteration of a

REVIEWER IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 1 building or group of buildings.

RA 9266 STRUCTURAL CONCEPTUALIZATION

ARCHITECTURE ● Act of conceiving, choosing, and developing

the type, disposition, arrangement and
● Art, science, or profession of planning, proportioning of the structural elements of
designing, and constructing buildings in an architectural work giving due
their totality. consideration to safety, cost-effectiveness,
functionality and aesthetics.
ARCHITECT
ARCHITECTURAL FIRM
● Professionally and academically qualified
● Registered and licensed under this act with ● Sole proprietorship, partnership, or
a Certificate of Registration and corporation
Professional Identification Card
AUTHORSHIP
ARCHITECT-OF-RECORD
● Author or authors of a set of architectural
● Registered and licensed architect directly plans or specifications
and professionally responsible for the total
design of the project. BOARD

ARCHITECT-IN-CHARGE OF CONSTRUCTION ● Professional Regulatory Board of

Architecture (BOA)
● Registered and licensed architect directly
responsible and liable for the construction COMMISSION
supervision of the project.
● Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)
CONSULTING ARCHITECT
SERVICE AGREEMENT
● Registered and licensed architect with
exceptional or recognized expertise or ● Duly notarized written contract or equivalent
specialization i n any branch of public instrument
architecture. ● Stipulate the scope of services and
guarantee compensation of such services.
GENERAL PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
INTEGRATED AND ACCREDITED
● Act of planning and architectural designing, PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION (IAPOA)
structural conceptualization, specifying,
supervising, and giving general ● Official national organization of all architects
administration, architectural design in in the Philippines
engineering structures or any part thereof
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SCOPE OF THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
● Sustaining and progressive learning
● Encompasses the provision of professional process that maintains, enhances, or
services in connection with site, physical, increases the knowledge and the continuing
and planning and the design, construction, ability of architects
enlargement, conservation, renovation,
DTI
 ● Department of Trade and Industry
SEC
● Securities and Exchange Commission
ASSOCIATION
● Any formal grouping of two or more
architects or architectural firms working in
joint venture on a project basis.
ARCHITECTURAL COMPANY
● Juridical entity that shall be synonymous
with an Architectural Partnership registered
with the SEC.
ARCHITECTURAL CORPORATION
● Group of professionals in architecture and
allied professions, incorporated with
Architects for the purpose of delivering
professional service in architecture and
allied professions.
● In case an existing architectural corporation
does not comply with the 75% composition
requirement, it shall comply and register
again with the SEC and the BOA.
ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTS
● Architectural drawings, specifications, and
other outputs of an architect that only an
architect can sign and seal.
ARCHITECTURAL INTERIORS
● Detailed planning and design of the
indoor/enclosed areas of any proposed
building or structure.
ARCHITECTURAL PARTNERSHIP
● A group of two or more architects duly
registered with the SEC and then with the
Board of Architecture.
ARCHITECTURAL PLANS
● A two-dimensional representation reflecting
a proposed development or redevelopment
of an enclosed / semi-enclosed or open
area.
BUILDING
● Structure for the purpose and function of
habitation and other uses.
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION
● Certificate bearing a registration number,
issued to an individual, by the Professional
Regulation Commission through the Board
of Architecture, satisfying that the individual
has successfully passed the licensure
examination and is registered to practice
his/her profession as an architect.
CODE OF ETHICAL CONDUCT
● Document which forms part of the
Architects’ National Code which contains
the norms and principles governing the
practice of the profession of architecture in
the highest standards of ethical conduct.
CONTRACT DOCUMENTS
● Documents attached to the agreement
identified therein as Contract Documents,
including all additions, deletions and
modifications incorporated therein.
COPYRIGHT
● Intellectual proprietary rights retained by an
architect over any architectural documents
or work that he/she prepared.
CPD PROVIDERS
● Entities, agencies, organizations and the
like have been accredited/registered with
the Board of Architecture of the PRC to
deliver seminars, lectures, and other
continuing professional education modules
for architects.
DIVERSIFIED ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE
 ● A post-baccalaureate, pre-licensure
experience of two years required of a
graduate of architecture prior to taking the
licensure examination.
FOREIGN ARCHITECT
● Architect who is not a Filipino citizen nor an
architect registered and licensed in the
Philippines but who is duly registered and
licensed in his or her home country.
FILIPINO COUNTERPART
● Local Philippine architect, partnership or
corporation that must work in association
with a foreign architect, partnership, or
corporation on a project on Philippine soil.
OWNERSHIP
● Refers to proprietary rights to an
architectural work such as plans, designs
and other documents by a person or
juridical entity who commissions the
Architect
PLANNING
● Refers to physical planning at site,
community or urban level by an architect.
PHYSICAL PLANNER
● Refers to an Architect who specializes in the
detailed physical planning of land or
property.
PHYSICAL PLANNING
● Detailed physical planning of land or
property on which vertical structures such
as buildings, monuments and/or structures
and horizontal developments such as
rights-of-way, open spaces and recreational/
sports/ establishments/ tourism and related
facilities are to be proposed.
PROFESSIONAL
● Refers to a person whose name and
registration/professional license number is
entered in the Professional Regulation
Commission registry book and
computerized database as one legally
authorized to practice his profession.
PROFESSIONAL IDENTIFICATION CARD
● document bearing the registration number,
date of issuance with an expiry date, due for
periodic renewal, duly signed by the
Chairperson of the PRC to a registered
Architect upon payment of the annual
registration fees for three (3) years.
SITE PLANNING
● detailed site development planning of all
areas surrounding a building/structure
and/or a group of buildings/structures but
only within the property limits of the land on
which such buildings/structures are to be
erected.
STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
● Document embodied in the Architects
National Code, which defines all aspects of
professional service, prescribes minimum
basic fees and establishes the rights and
obligations of both the Architect and the
client.
SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP
● an individual Architect practicing and
delivering architectural services, duly
registered with the DTI, BOA and the PRC.
SPECIALIZATION
● expertise and special knowledge in the field
of architecture acquired by an Architect
through formal education and training or
through continuing professional
development and experience, for which the
Architect may be engaged as Consulting
Architect.
SYLLABI
● the outlines embodying topics and concepts
of major subjects prescribed in a specific
course of study to serve as basis for test
questions in the licensure examinations.
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I. RULE I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

 SECTION 106. DEFINITIONS
● ADDITION
- Any new construction which increases the
height and/or floor area of existing
structures.
● AGENCY OF THE GOVERNMENT
- Refers to the various units of government
building.
● ALTERATION
- involve changes in the materials used, size
of openings, structural parts, existing utilities
but does not increase the building height or
floor area.
● APPLICATION FORMS
- preformatted prescribed application form
duly accomplished.
● APPLICANT/PERMITTEE
- Any person, firm, partnership, corporation,
head of government or private institution,
organization of any character applying for
the issuance of permits and certificates.
● BUILDING OFFICIAL
- the Executive Officer of the OBO appointed
by the Secretary.
● BUILDING PERMIT
- A document issued by the Building Official
(BO) to an owner/applicant to proceed with
the construction, installation, addition,
alteration, renovation, conversion, repair,
moving, demolition or other work activity of
a specific project/building/structure,
- Should be satisfactory and substantially
conforming with the National Building Code
of the Philippines (the Code) and its
Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR).
● CODE
- PD 1096, otherwise known as the National
Building Code of the Philippines.
● CONSTRUCTION
- All on-site work done in the site preparation,
excavation, foundation, assembly of all the
components and installation of utilities,
machineries and equipment of
buildings/structures.
● CONVERSION
- A change in the use or occupancy of
buildings/structures or any portion/s thereof,
which has different requirements.
● DEMOLITION
- The systematic dismantling or destruction of
a building/structure, in whole or in part.
● DEPARTMENT
- The Department of Public Works and
Highways (DPWH)
● EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- The Executive Officer or Head of the
NBCDO.
● MOVING
- The transfer of buildings/structures or
portion/s thereof from original location or
position to another, either within the same
lot or to a different one.
● OFFICE OF THE BUILDING OFFICIAL
(OBO)
- The Office authorized to enforce the
provisions of the Code and its IRR in the
field as well as the enforcement of orders
and decisions made pursuant thereto.
● REFERRAL CODES
- The applicable provisions of the various
agency and technical professional codes
that are supplementary to the Code.
● RENOVATION
 - Any physical change made on
buildings/structures to increase the value,
quality, and/or to improve the aesthetic.

● REPAIR
- Remedial work done on any damaged or
deteriorated portion/s of building/structure to
restore to its original condition.

● SECRETARY
- Head or Chief Executive Officer of DPWH.
- MANUEL M. BONOAN

● STAFF
- The personnel of the National Building Code
Development Office (NBCDO).

II. RULE II - ADMINISTRATION AND

ENFORCEMENT

● SECTION 201. RESPONSIBILITY FOR

ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
- The administration and enforcement of the
provisions of the Code and this IRR,
including the imposition of penalties for
administrative violations thereof, is hereby
vested in the Secretary.

● SECTION 202. TECHNICAL STAFF

1. Assist the Secretary in the administration
and enforcement of the provisions of the
Code and its IRR.
2. Review, evaluate and take final action on
various technical and legal problems
forwarded to the Office of the Secretary.
3. Conduct seminars and workshops on the
Code, its IRR, and Batas Pambansa Blg.
344 (Accessibility Law).
4. 4. Undertake such other duties and tasks as
may be assigned by the Secretary from time
to time.

● SECTION 203. GENERAL POWERS AND

FUNCTIONS OF THE SECRETARY
1.